TheBananaKing

Just on the internet, talking to people about it - a bunch on reddit, a bunch on various pre-reddit forums. I was/am a mod on /r/intactivism, but who knows where I'll end up.

I've never understood these posts.

This is functionally identical to "what was the last thing you bought on amazon?"

What's with the clickbaity setup around it?

The average human has more than one skeleton, though.

One thing that would be nice to have would be body-text expandoes. That is, instead of the text-bubble icon just linking to comments, have it expand the post text inline.

I've saved a few dozen kids (that I know of) from genital mutilation. I'm pretty happy with that, but it's not exactly watercooler conversation.

There was a young man

From Cork, who got limericks

And haikus confused

It's like mopping up water with a sponge, and wringing it out into a bucket.

Gas molecules bounce around in the space they're in - and the more heat energy they have, the faster they go.

The more you compress the gas, the more often they hit the walls - like shrinking the room down on a bunch of angry bees: you're going to be hearing a bunch more thudding noises per second.

And that rate-of-collisions is what we call temperature.

When you bring two things into contact, it's the temperature difference, not the heat difference, that determines which way the energy difference evens out.

So if you squeeze a gas, its temperature rises, and the heat energy leaks out through the sides of the container it's in, until the temperature drops down to match the surroundings. The molecules get slower and slower, until the rate of collision on the inside matches the rate on the outside.

Lots of slow bees in a small room, smaller number of fast bees outside, the rate of thudding noises on either side of the wall will be the same.

If you now decompress that gas, let it out into the original-sized space it was in before - the now slow-moving molecules collide with the walls a whole lot less often than they did before; their temperature is a lot lower.

That low-temperature gas is now really eager to soak up any heat energy that's going.

Pump the gas over here, squeeze it down, heat gets dumped out of it.

Pump the gas over there, un-squeeze it, suck heat back up into it.

Rinse and repeat. Sponge and bucket.

It's more efficient than a heater, for the same reason a bicycle courier can bring you a gigantic feast in 23 minutes: they didn't have to make it, they just carried it. The heat energy isn't coming from the power lines, it's coming from the atmosphere. All the electricity is doing is moving it.

I don't care if people train models off my posts. I released the content into the wild; I don't much care what happens to it after that. Attribution of direct quotes is nice to have, but twiddling some weights in a language model is far too abstruse for me to care about.

And sure, if openAI is inhaling all of reddit, it's reasonable to charge for that.

But shutting down third-party apps was never about that.

If a server admin turns out to be a giant asshole (present company excepted, of course), is there a way to migrate your identity to another instance?

If a server admin gets hit by a bus and their instance goes away, do all the users just cease to exist?

Thanks for that - that's a big concern in any forum, and it's fantastic to see it addressed here :)

Sweet! I'm so glad there's a lifeboat.

We should make sure to promote it back on daddit.